QB | Otto Graham | Cleveland Browns (1946-55)
A quarterback should be measured -- most of all -- by winning. Graham quarterbacked his team to the championship game of his league 10 times in 10 years, winning seven titles. And he led the league in passing seven times in those 10 years.

RB | Jim Brown | Cleveland Browns (1957-65)
When you can run between the tackles the way he did, and still be able to turn the corner skillfully enough to average 5.2 yards a carry, you earn the right to edge the great Walter Payton for this honor.

FB | Bronko Nagurski | Chicago Bears (1930-37, '43)
The archives paint such a hammer-headed picture of Nagurski -- along with his ability to run it well and often -- that he seems like the Ice Age Mike Alstott with Jerome Bettis production.

WR | Don Hutson | Green Bay Packers (1935-45)
Best receiver of all time. Just look at the numbers. In a dead-ball era, he caught three times as many passes for three times as many touchdowns as anyone in the first 25 years of the NFL.

WR | Jerry Rice | San Francisco 49ers (1985-2000), Oakland Raiders (2001-04), Seattle Seahawks (2004)
Other guys were faster. Other guys had more athleticism. No one wanted it more, and no one had better hands. Rice is a player for every age, not just this one.

TE | John Mackey | Baltimore Colts (1963-71), San Diego Chargers (1972)
As a combo platter of blocker, receiver and cluth team player, no tight end has been better.

T | Anthony Munoz | Cincinnati Bengals (1980-92)
I once watched Munoz's line coach, Jim McNally, grade a gametape of his. "Every week it's like this," McNally said. "As close to perfect as a player can play." No player except Munoz can say he was all-pro and made the Pro-Bowl 11 years in a row.

G | John Hannah | New England Patriots (1973-85)
As technically sound as Munoz was, so was Hannah -- plus he was as mean on the field as he was gentlemanly off it.

C | Mel Hein | New York Giants (1931-45)
Its's so hard to compare eras, obviously, and Hein played from 1931 to '45. But no player in history played both ways, every week, for 15 years and at such a high level for a good team.

G | Jim Parker | Baltimore Colts (1957-67)
Parker was the only offensive lineman to make the Pro Bowl four times or more at two positions -- guard and tackle.

T | Forrest Gregg | Green Bay Packers (1956, '58-70), Dallas Cowboys (1971)
Close call over Jonathan Ogden, the best tackle of the past 15 years. Gregg played 188 straight games at a real man's man position, winning six NFL titles along the way.

DT | Joe Greene | Pittsburgh Steelers (1969-81)
Ask the Steeler players from a generation ago, and they'll tell you Greene was the keystone to the four Super Bowl wins. Selfless and dominant.

DT | Bob Lilly | Dallas Cowboys (1961-74)
The bedrock foundation of the Dallas defense for 15 years, Lilly was there every Sunday -- he played in 196 consecutive games -- and made every offensive game-planner work around him.

DE | Reggie White | Philadelphia Eagles (1985-92), Green Bay Packers (1993-98), Carolina Panthers (2000)
No defensive lineman ever -- Joe Greene was close -- rushed the passer and stopeed the run with the skill and consistent greatness of White.

OLB | Lawrence Taylor | New York Giants (1981-93)
As dangerous and impactful a defensive player as has ever played the game -- ask the Redskins -- and he played the run pretty well, too.

ILB | Dick Butkus | Chicago Bears (1965-73)
You can't have an all-time team without Butkus, who was a sledgehammer inside the tackles and an instinctive player from sideline-to-sideline.

ILB | Ray Nitschke | Green Bay Packers (1958-72)
Voted the NFL's all-time best linebacker in 1969, which would get an argument from Butkus. Nitschke was the defensive key to Green Bay's greatness.

OLB | Ray Lewis | Baltimore Ravens (1996-present)
For as long as I cover this game, I'll never see a more athletic linebacker than Lewis was in 2000, when he willed the Ravens to a Super Bowl title. He's declining now, but was a consistent 10-year playmaker at a high level.

SS | Ronnie Lott | San Francisco 49ers (1981-90), Los Angeles Raiders (1991-92), New York Jets (1993-94)
Let's face it: In the era of football we all know best, no secondary player has been as feared and respected as Lott, the best combination of hitter, cover safety and corner in football history.

FS | Sammy Baugh | Washington Redskins (1937-52)
He's here not because he was the second-best safety of all time, but because he deserves two roles on this team (he's also my punter). The most versatile great player ever. Quarterbacked, too.